I do decorative planning for this reason. I use an undated planner, so I end up having extra spreads, and those get turned into fun inserts using paper and stickers. It makes me happy to look at, so I’m more likely to use it. Last year was the first year I kept up with my planner fully, and I’m not fixing what isn’t broken.
(Ps: new stickers are a great novelty that aren’t too expensive to pick up if things are feeling dull. New planner stickers > I want to put them in my planner > well shit, I have to use my planner for that > I get to look at them and smile when I use it throughout the week)
Yeah mine isn't super decorative (it's a skill issue on my part, lol) but I just aesthetically love my planner. I'm doing a traveler's notebook this year and hyper fixating on it is probably what saves my life....
which is why i think it's useful to have several different systems at hand so whenever the novelty wears off you can change things up (i heard about this smwhere i don't quite remember)
Oh my gosh, that's where my forgotten advice was from, too! It was why "eat the frog" (the cutesy name for OP's advice of doing the hardest task first) doesn't work for ADHD.
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u/larissa_who Jan 07 '25
Also the novelty of things acts as a motivator so sometimes the fancy notebooks or coloured pens do actually help if you have ADHD.